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I remember as a girl in the mid-1980’s dancing around to the famous song, “Walk Like An Egyptian”. Many years later, upon studying the spiritual truths founded in the original Passover and Exodus events compared to Jesus as the Passover Lamb, I’m discovering the last thing you will want to do as a grafted-in Israelite is walk like an Egyptian…

If you believe in Jesus or Yeshua, in His original Hebrew name, then please stop self-identifying as a ‘Gentile’, which is to walk like an Egyptian. While I realize you may not have Jewish DNA circulating in your veins, if you are covered in the blood of Yeshua, whose very name means, ‘Salvation’, by believing He is the Son of God, the Anointed One, the Messiah, who died for your sins/lawlessness and rose again, then you no longer have the inheritance of a Gentile, but rather the inheritance as a son or daughter, adopted in God’s family (Romans 2:28-29; 8:14-17). Despite living in an “Egyptian” culture, despite the fact that you once were slaves to sin, to lawlessness, the ministry of death, our Abba Father saw the blood of His Passover Lamb, applied to your life, applied to the door post of your mind, your heart, and your soul, allowing eternal death, or separation from God, to pass over you by the shed blood of the Passover Lamb. HalleluYAH!

The “Egyptian” culture, the world, HaSatan / Satan, may be attempting to label you as a “Gentile”, chasing you down trying to bring you back into the bondage of breaking God’s laws, the consequence in doing so called “the law of sin and death” (Romans 7:21-25), but you have been covered by the Lamb and crossed over the Red Sea, washed clean of your former identity. You went from being a slave to sin to a slave of righteousness, from lawlessness to lawful (Romans 6:15-23). You may not be a “native” born Israelite, nevertheless, the same law and benefits applied to the “mixed multitude”, to the stranger who aligned themselves with Israel (read ‘One Law For All’ article and review Ezekiel 47:21-23; Leviticus 19:33-34; Romans 8:17).

Upon circumcising your heart by coming into covenant with YHVH, our Abba Father, through His lawful Son, Yeshua, your relationship with Abba, which means Father in Hebrew, and therefore, your identity has changed from being a Gentile, lost, wayward, and lawless prodigal son or daughter, to now a legally adopted child of God or grafted-in Israelite, who is found, walking The Way, and living lawfully as Yeshua / Jesus walked.

In fact, Scripture reveals that the reference to Gentiles was always a negative one describing those who are not of God. Yahweh, whom I affectionately and respectfully call Abba (watch ‘Call Me Abba’ episode), frequently tells His chosen people, those in covenant with Him (Deut.7:6-11; 1 Peter 2:9), to not learn the way of the Gentiles (other nations), rather, learn His ways, His will, His truth, His heart: His commandments/His Torah.

“not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;” 1 Thessalonians 4:5

“And do not pray like the Gentiles…do not be like them..” Matthew 6:7-15

“This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations…” Jeremiah 10:2 (also see Deut. 12:4,29-32; 13:1-8)

“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and LAWLESSNESS, or what fellowship has light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 {Note the antithesis to being right with God (righteousness) is lawlessness (not obeying God’s laws).}

“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way,21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. ” Ephesians 4:17-24

Again, dear ones, if you have accepted God’s grace, (Read ‘What Exactly Did You Repent From?’) accepted His shed blood for your lawless deeds/sin, then you are no longer (hopefully) a disobedient rebellious Gentile, but rather an immigrated citizen of spiritual Israel/ an Israelite GRATEFUL for His grace. You, as His church, His assembly, His ekklesia, don’t replace Israel, you become graciously allowed into the chosen nation of God…you become apart of Israel. The “new” you, once a Gentile, but now a grafted-in Israelite, made one in Yeshua, is destined to be apart of the “new” covenant with a home in “New” Jerusalem in the “new” heavens and earth one fine day.

So, dear brothers and sisters in Him, for the love of God and His Son, please stop self-identifying as a Gentile for you no longer walk as the proverbial Egyptian. You are a grafted-in Israelite, a child of God.

In this teaching episode, Carrie reflects on how the two witnesses (two prophets) and the false prophet have the ability to call forth the plagues in the last days. In this teaching, you’ll also learn how to tell the difference between prophets of God and false prophets, which can be difficult to discern when prophecies manifest!